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This excellent TIME.com article about Dr Gabor Mate's work with addicts will make anyone with an interest in addiction want to read more. If you're wondering: Does addiction anything to do with me? see quotes below.

"How do you define addiction? Any behavior that is associated with craving and temporary relief, and with long-term negative consequences, that a person is not able to give up. Note that I said nothing about substances — it’s any behavior that has temporary relief and negative consequences and loss of control."

Keep learning about the brain. There is new knowledge every day and it is so valuable to understand better how it works. If you have children for instance understanding about children's brains and their development is hugely valuable. Children need the help of adults to learn to regulate their brains, until they learn to do it themselves. Many parents don't understand that children's brains are immature and they are unable to behave like adults. Many adults didn't get the help they needed as children, and so have lasting problems with brain…

You'll find empathy popping up all through the Stanford Design School approach. It's "human-centred" and

Edwin Rutsch of the Centre for the Culture of Empathy (who I am meeting with in an Empathy Circle every week) is integrating these design approaches into our development of the Empathy Circles and Empathy Workshop.

On the Google doc http://j.mp/NoMgd4 is the following section.. 'Post Notes, Work Area, Ideas, etc ' Feel free to start posting ideas about these questions. It's at the bottom of the page. How can we build an empathy movement? What ideas do you have?